GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD FirePro W7000
CORE STATE
Pitcairn
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
150 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
RADEON
Radeon HD 6950
CORE STATE
Cayman
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
200 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
TeraScale 3
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W7000
HD 6950
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
1,408
+10.0%
Shaders
1,280
1,408
+10.0%
TMUs
80
88
+10.0%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
20
22
+10.0%
Clocks
GPU Clock
950 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
2,048
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
76.00 GTexel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.432 TFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
152.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
Power
TDP
150 W
200 W
TDP (W)
150
200
+33.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TeraScale 3
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Cayman
Generation
FirePro GCN
(Wx000)
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
2,640 million
Die Size
212 mm²
389 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.2M / mm²
6.8M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Vulkan
1.2.170
—
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
5.0
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Dual-slot
Length
242 mm
9.5 inches
286 mm
11.3 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
126 mm
5 inches
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
899 USD
299 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
Evergreen
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Southern Islands